US President Barack Obama insisted that he really has
been paying his bills, after his credit card was turned down at a posh
New York restaurant. First Lady Michelle was forced to pick up the tab
following the hiccup.

Obama revealed the slip-up as he was signing a new anti-fraud
order into law on Friday at the Consumers Financial Protection
Bureau. The law will make chip and pin technology compulsory on
all federal government credit and debit cards, the Huffington
Post reported.

“It turned out I guess I don’t use it enough, so they thought
there was some fraud going on. I was trying to explain to the
waitress, ‘No really, I think that I’ve, uh, been paying my
bills.’ So even I’m affected by this,” he quipped.

Although the president said the incident happened in New York, he
didn’t specify where. However, it was previously reported that
the Obamas visited the upmarket Estela restaurant in Manhattan
last month.

The order, signed by President Obama on Friday, encompasses
several steps which are designed to give Americans better
protection from fraud – the fastest growing form of crime in the
US.

In addition to making chip and pin mandatory for all government
credit and debit cards – technology which has been in use for a
number of years in Europe – the order also requires law
enforcement agencies to send credit and debit card information
that they believe to be compromised to a national “Internet
Fraud Alert System.”
Chip and pin credit and debit cards will be introduced across the
US from October 2015.

The restaurant incident was not the first time that Obama has
experienced rejection. In August, the president was turned down
by at least three exclusive New York golf clubs while visiting
the area to attend an aide’s wedding.

Local TV channel WNBC reported that the clubs said they were not
given enough notice and could not accommodate the president’s
security team on one of their busiest days of the year. Nor did
they wish to inconvenience their wealthy members who pay more
than $100,000 a year in membership fees.>

1 comment:

Gotta ASK: Never ending digital fraud for POTUS while people are starving on the streets, shot to death and tortured to death, homes stolen and the CRIMINAL FRAUD of USA is definitely a CIVILIZATION SUICIDE!

Never ending digital fraud for POTUS while people are starving on the streets, shot to death and tortured to death, homes stolen and the CRIMINAL FRAUD of USA is definitely a CIVILIZATION SUICIDE: JUST Gotta ASK!